Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Gas drilling and Fracking: Effects on nearby families

"They Are Afraid Their House Could Blow Up": Meet the Families Whose Lives Have Been Ruined by Gas Drilling [Photos By Award-Winning Photographer Nina Berman]

"We're not asking for a lot and now they're taking it all away. In a million years, I never would have thought that people could do this and get away with it."


Photo Credit: Nina Berman/NOOR

Editor's Note: Go here to see award-winning photographer Nina Berman's arresting images of the dirty business of gas drilling.

Cassie Spencer said she nearly "had a cow" when she returned home one day and saw her yard sprinkled with little red flags, like land mine markers in a war zone. Her 5-year-old daughter was playing in the midst of them. The family property had become a methane field.  Click here to read article from the AlterNet.

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